CVISION Technologies

Question: What is OCR? Could you tell me what OCR means? I see the option for OCR mentioned both when I scan documents into PDF using my scanner, and when I use your PdfCompressor.

Answer: OCR is an abbreviation for Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is designed to translate images of typewritten text, faxed, and scanned files into machine editable, text-searchable, index-able text. Our OCR engine is capable of four different modes of OCR; the different modes are based on the quality of the scanned document.

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Question: How can I shrink my PDF documents? I am looking to reduce the size of my scanned PDF document?

Answer: Our PdfCompressor helps shrink, and convert PDF, TIFF, and JPEG files into compressed, web-optimized, and text searchable PDF files. The PdfCompressor shrinks PDF file size of scanned color PDFs up to 1/100th of the size, and shrinks scanned black & white PDFs up to 1/10th of the size. We can also reduce electronic PDFs which may require a tweaking in the setting and using the Rasterization mode opposed to the Stream mode. Please have in mind you can always submit the file to us for examining. We will return the compressed file along with the utilized settings. In addition to shrinking the file size of these PDFs, PdfCompressor is equiped with an OCR engine.

The PDF file reduction is completed while maintaining file quality; there are various types of files out there, the standard setting of PdfCompressor usually works well to compress them. However, some other files may require tweaking those setting to achieve better PDF file reduction results. In these instances, or for any other questions to help shrink PDF file size, contact support@cvisiontech.com

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Question: I need to compress PDF documents, and make them searchable. Can your software do both on the same document?

Answer: PdfCompressor can make your documents fully searchable with CVISION’s super-accurate OCR, AND PdfCompressor 3.1 makes the most compact, Web-friendly PDF files available. PdfCompressor 3.1 will compress typical black and white scans by a factor of 5-10x and color scans by a factor of 10-100x. Our unmatched text-focused color scan processing ensures maximum data retention, even under high compression.

Uniquely, PdfCompressor combines image processing, OCR, advanced compression, Bates-stamping, PDF options settings, web-optimization and encryption all in one step.

See for yourself with our free 30 day trial version, available at http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: I need files that are manageable and easy to use. I have been doing some research, and discovered that many businesses either use TIFF, JPEG, or PDF files. Which files should I use?

Answer: PDF files are readily viewable on any PC with Adobe’s free reader. PDFs allow documents to be uniformly printed and viewed. Furthermore, PDFs can be equipped with an OCR layer to make your documents text-searchable. OCR converts image documents into text searchable PDF files. Searchable files created by OCR, are far more manageable and users are more efficient.

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Question: After using the OCR option on your PdfCompressor software, I am receiving invalid hits on my searches?

Answer: The problem that you are describing I have seen before and it seems to be an Adobe matter. To have properly searchable PDFs please follow these steps:

1. In Adobe, click Edit.
2. Select Preferences from the drop down menu.
3. Select “Search” from the left side panel.
4. Uncheck the option “Enable fast find” (Disable)
5. Press the button that reads “Purge Cache Contents”
6. Try the OCR search again

Question: I need to make my scanned documents searchable. I am looking to make a searchable database. How can I do this?

Answer: PdfCompressor converts scanned, or image documents in searchable PDF files. PDFs are readily viewable with Adobe’s free reader, which allows these scanned documents to be viewed anywhere.

With PdfCompressor your documents are now searchable based on OCR capabilities. PdfCompressor also reduces the size of scanned documents up to 100x smaller for color, and 10x smaller for black & white.

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Question: Which languages are supported by CVISION’s OCR?

Answer: CVISION’s OCR supports over 60 different languages. For a list of OCR supported languages, click here: http://www.cvisiontech.com/language_list.html

Question: How do I add a different language to the OCR library to improve my OCR results?

Answer: The OCR Language Pack can be downloaded from the following link http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html , at the bottom of the page.

You can get better OCR results for languages other than English when you install the OCR language pack; 60 languages are supported in all.